Users will also be served track recommendations directly from artists and can share music with their friends, as well as see what they have been listening to.

"Today, we're releasing Twitter #music, a new service that will change the way people find music, based on Twitter," said the microblogging firm in a statement. "It uses Twitter activity, including Tweets and engagement, to detect and surface the most popular tracks and emerging artists.

"It also brings artists' music-related Twitter activity front and center: go to their profiles to see which music artists they follow and listen to songs by those artists. And, of course, you can tweet songs right from the app."